Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
ANNE CARSONMeanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.
More Anne Carson Quotes
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You used to say. “Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.” Madness doubled is marriage I added when the caustic was cool, not intending to produce a golden rule.
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Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me. Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.
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Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
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Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
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I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don’t gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me.
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We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth– we call it life.
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The self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind.
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Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you’ve made something, it’ll – the world will be different.
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Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
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Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.
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When I desire you a part of me is gone.
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Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
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It is when you are asking about something that you realize you yourself have survived it, and so you must carry it, or fashion it into a thing that carries itself.
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Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.
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You can never know enough, never work enough, never use the infinitives and participles oddly enough, never impede the movement harshly enough, never leave the mind quickly enough.
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Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.
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When an ecstatic is asked the question, What is it that love dares the self to do? she will answer: Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.
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What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.
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You doubt God? Well more to the point I credit God with the good sense to doubt me. What is mortality after all but divine doubt flashing over us? For an instant God suspends assent and poof! we disappear.
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The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
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At least half of your mind is always thinking, I’ll be leaving; this won’t last. It’s a good Buddhist attitude. If I were a Buddhist, this would be a great help. As it is, I’m just sad.
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Philosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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Simply do something else and return to it later to find the problem wasn’t a problem at all. Ruptures almost always lead to a stronger project.
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